Montgomery AL

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Montgomery Public Schools on Thursday unveiled “Vision 2026,” a districtwide plan Superintendent Dr. Zickeyous Byrd says will reshape how students learn and prepare for college and careers. Speaking six months into his tenure, Byrd presented the new direction at the Montgomery Public Schools...

This month marks seventy years since the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Civil rights icon Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a muncipal bus to a white passenger on December first of 1955. Four days later the boycott began. The event made both Parks and Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior into international figures. A...

New federal guidelines on what constitutes a “professional degree” are raising alarms across nursing schools, hospitals and medical education programs. The changes come from implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which alters how graduate students can borrow federal loans and which degrees qualify for...

The Alabama State Board of Education will not vote on recommended social studies and arts education textbooks at its monthly meeting Thursday, and it’s unclear when the vote will take place. At least two members of the board have criticized the content of the social studies textbooks, which pushed a vote on the...

The Montgomery Regional Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday bestowed Governor Kay Ivey with the inaugural Capital Legacy Impact Award in recognition of Ivey’s tenure leading the state. The Montgomery Regional Chamber established the Capital Legacy Impact Award to recognize leaders whose service has made a generational...

State officials today plan to sell $730 million in bonds to help finance a major highway project in west Alabama. The state plans to use a significant portion of its revenue from the 2019 gas tax increase to pay down the bond debt over about two decades, to the frustration of some state lawmakers who question...

After decades of vacancy and lukewarm revitalization attempts, the future of the historic Ben Moore Hotel finally has direction. As the Advertiser previously reported , on Jan. 30, the property was listed on several real estate sites for $419,000. In November the building was purchased by The Conservation Fund, an...

MOBILE, Ala. (NBC 15) — The fight over the internet sales tax, or Simplified Sellers Use Tax (SSUT), hit a fevered pitch overnight with all 67 counties in Alabama joining the suit. As of Thursday morning, 169 cities and towns across the state also joined in the suit. The deadline to join, or intervene in the suit,...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — The wait for medical marijuana in Alabama is almost over. The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission awarded dispensary licenses to some retailers at a meeting in Montgomery today. Officials said that will make the product available for patients in the next two to three months. “Today shows...

ATLANTA (AP) — A historical marker from the site of a 1918 lynching that was repeatedly vandalized in recent years is now safely on display in Atlanta in an exhibit that opens Monday. It memorializes an event that some people in rural southern Georgia have tried hard to erase:...